Improvement in chewing-gum



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I, WVESTOh \V of l Stnford, in the county of BrooniqganjclStateofNew York, have inl j l abituatedto theuse of Vtobacjcoi" 5 a uMyinvention :rel tes to certain ingredients'composfing a gnm,-whichis designed as a pleasant and healthful ubstitute for tobacco, thesani'e tobeemployed as H a medicine or antidote tocurepersons addicted to the use of tobacco of thedesire'todjndulge the habit, more 1 especially that ofchewing it,"fwherefore I call; it tobacco antidote or chewing-gum. v a f Said ingredients-have such properties as are agreeable to the taste, healthful to; thegums and teeth, and productive of good breath, thesaid ingredients a or component partsb'eing' made into a gum, which, when employed as a substituteffortobacco, not only alleviates the desire tochew or snioke tobacco of any vented acertain fionlnound called TobaccoAntidote i or Qhewing-Gmnpffio be used as a substitute bythose WEST-0NW.K'ILBOURN, or SANFORD NEWYORK i Letters Patent No. 107,693, dated September 27, 1870.

" IMPRO VEMENT lNCHEWlNG-GUM.

' The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent andmaking p'art of the same quality, but also affords permanent relief tothose who have contracted the habits its use engenders.

It is composed of twelve parts of gum dammar, two

parts of cera alba, two parts of sweet or peanut oil.

and one part of balsam tolu, which are mixed and' heated to boiling point, and then'poured into cold water, and worked until it is white. It is then softened with warm water, and rolledthrough a machine made .for the purpose, by which it is formed into Claim.

A tobacco antidote or chewing-gnm,composed substantially as above describedyand 'for the purpose set forth. a Witnesses: WESTON W KILBOURN.

FRANK STURDEVANT, M. 1)., ELI MooR 

